Poetic consultation in the bushes

Tickets: This performance is a 1:1 experience and the audience capacity is limited. Please book your consultation in advance. If you have not booked a session, you can find a spot to sneak-peak or get lucky and get a drop-in consultation.

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE

With the performance piece Poetic Consultation in the bushes, Seimi Nørregaard solicits you, one-on-one, to stage yourself as a work of art. While a situated and costumed transformation emerges, Nørregaard collaborates with you as the guest to develop a kind of spatial poetry across new performatives becoming and textual metamorphosizes. The guest steps into a small wardrobe, which is overflowing with makeup mirrors and exuberant amounts of clothing and objects. Here, the guest meets the performer, a figure-fusion of a clerk, a tailor, and a transcendent playmate, acting as a mediator, facilitator, and participant in the active transformation of the guest.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Seimi Nørregaard is working with installation art and performance. Spaces that have an equal footing with bodies, text, light and sound make up the common thread in her artistic work. Selected previous works include The walls have ears (Overgaden and Carte Blanche, 2006), Vrangsiden in collaboration with Boaz Barkan (Kgl. Teater Eventministeriet, 2012), HJEM in collaboration with Boaz Barkan (Warehouse9, 2016), HIDE Revisit (Overgaden, 2016), Work Work (Kampnagel Transgeneratoren, Hamburg, 2020), and Underworld Wig Parade (Sorø Art Museum, 2022).

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PERFORMANCE BULLETIN

Den Frie and Toaster presents the upcoming performance festival The Performance Bulletin, which will take place June 5-8 2025. Together with Danish and international performance artists, we investigate how situational performance pieces can introduce alternative ways of engaging and experiencing contemporary art.  Formed by artistic actions that disrupts our attention and opens the senses, the program asks what kinds of imaginations can be activated through embodied, situated, and processual performances.

The program is based on close collaborations with artists, who experiment with everything from feminist openings of symbols and monuments in the city, to collective dance ecstasies, vocal performances, joints dinners, performative explorations of the city’s infrastructure,s and traffic hubs, to as well as performance pieces that slow down the paste pace and enhance our sensitivity. Improvisation and movement are central forces in the program, which experiment with access and negotiate of the use of the public space. Celebrating the unexpected, indeterminate, and estranged impulse of performances, the program tests public attention and social processes by the happening of art.

The program is curated by Iben Bach Elmstrøm in close collaborations and dialogue with the artists and the, Toaster and Den Frie curatorial teams. The program is generously supported by New Carlsberg Foundation, Bikuben Foundation, Danish Arts Council and Roskilde University.